Ruth and Boaz

by Anonymous

$1,400 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

This fine Biblical scene is from the Book of Ruth, chapter 2, in which Boaz, owner of the fields being worked, tells Ruth that she is welcome to glean there gather what has been left behind and that she will be safe. Ruth kneels to the ground: Then she fell on her face, and bowed herself to the ground, and said unto him, 'Why have I found grace in they eyes that thou shouldst take knowledge of me, seeing I am a stranger? verse 3. Boaz answers, in effect, that it is because he knows she is

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